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For years, I sounded alarms about Big Tech surveillance and environmental destruction. I used to be told I was paranoid. Now I have to say it plainly: the AI boom is not just a tech story. The grabbing of land, water and electricity is a physical assault on our lives and our communities. You thought it would be Terminators, but it's actually data centers. From farmland to rivers to the electric grid, hyperscale facilities are taking the very foundations of human survival, built not for progress but for profit and control.
Let's look at scale. Data centers currently consume about 4.4 percent of all U.S. electricity, a figure projected to reach 12 percent by 2030, according to industry estimates cited by the White House. OpenAI is demanding 100 gigawatts of new energy capacity per year, equivalent to roughly 80 million households' worth of electricity. In a recent Decentralize.TV conversation, Hakeem Anwar connected the dots on roughly 800 hyperscaler projects and 200 gigawatts of planned demand, and none of us were asked for permission. Even Texas Governor Greg Abbott has ordered a pause on data center approvals pending an audit over grid reliability concerns [6]. Meanwhile, more than 300 cities, towns and counties have enacted bans or moratoriums on hyperscale construction .
Here's why this matters: no one voted for this. These facilities are being pushed through by giant corporations while citizens are left to deal with blackouts, higher bills, and stolen resources. We are building a machine that consumes our future, and the clock is ticking....<<<Read More>>>...